"[… ] The restlessness and uncertainty of living in the world only as the expectation of salvation, while the impotence of man is always fulfilled to try to be righteous before God, leads Pinto to to weave a plot where the signs become unbalanced and unrecognizable, crumble and lose the path of the linear story, they get lost to become only presences in the space of the project of the painting. The story of the man is confused and led to the stuttering of a child who seeks the light and now he has only time to wait for it from elsewhere, from beyond the picture. [… ]
But Pinto’s work is never paranoid, theatrical or ambiguous, as Baroque will be after protomanierism. [… ]
It is necessary to paint 'as if' painting was already light and tempt the powerlessness of matter to be light while remaining matter."
Carmine Benincasa, in Cat. Pinto...e Lutero, project and creation by Carmine Benincasa and Lorenzo Sassoli, with contributions byi Marisa Vescovo and Luciano Nanni. Leader Arte, Rome 1983